PPP awaiting report to the nation before commenting on outcome of Granger, Maduro meeting

The People’s Progres-sive Party (PPP) is awaiting a report to the nation by President David Granger before commenting on the outcome of his meeting with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro on Sunday in New York.

“I am not prepared to go according to newspaper reports [on] what the president said or what the president did not say. I would prefer the president, on his return to Guyana, to report to the nation with the Foreign Minister at his side and to tell us exactly what took place,” PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee told the party’s weekly press briefing at Freedom House yesterday.

Rohee was asked the party’s position on the outcome of the meeting between the two leaders, which was